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Just another band on the road
Tryin’ to make our own way
Don’t wanna hurt no one
Then we found some crazy machine
and now it takes us to
the strangest places we’ve ever seen
The Get-Go’s
The Get-Go’s
Helping out whoever we can
The Get-Go’s
The Get-Go’s
Now the bad guys chasing us
won't stay far away from us
Will we ever get back home?
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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Permanent Makeup
02:34
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There's a smile that you give
A rejoinder
Your mouth in a curl for display
A flash of light with the thunder
still six or seven seconds away
But the truth settles under the clouds
and you'll say you must be dead inside
I knew enough to know what's right
Yeah, I knew enough to know
that your smile is permanent
but just a bluff
It's a joke that you told for survival
A shield in a look in your eyes for the world
A denial
of anything anyone could devise
Good enough. Even I'll grant your style
but I think I may have bought it, too
I knew enough to know what's right
Yeah, I knew enough to know
that your smile is permanent
but just a bluff
I told hizzoner if I can look backward
and still recognize her then things will be fine
As if something handed could be taken for granted
Like love set aside is somehow better than none
I knew enough to know what's right
Yeah, I knew enough to know
So my redress is permanent
even if nothing is undone
Not enough to forget
but maybe enough
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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Robot World
03:14
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Robot World!
Robot World!
Shouldn't somebody check my lungs for air
or revive me?
I was sure when I came in I still cared
for what's underlying
Don't sense that happiness
Don't fumble for your joy
Don't hope for sentiment
You're here in Robot World
I remember the feeling of being alive
that used to drive me
Funny something so tedious and dull
could ever surprise me
Don't waste time trying it
Don't wonder why it's so
Don't rage against the dying
of the light in Robot World
Robot World!
Robot World!
I'm fine
Here in this electric shell
I've set my smile on high
so no one can ever tell
All my receptors are down
and I've learned to function without
Don't feel like anything
Don't love like anyone
Don't live your life at all
You're part of Robot World
Robot World!
Robot World!
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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This Shaky Lullaby
02:40
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Slow fade
the minutes slither by
Don't lie and say
what's still outside is night
Hide the clocks and cast about
for anything to hide
Any sign of the coming hour
Humor me and don't ask questions
I'm too afraid I'll pull you down
I'm too afraid you'll be undone
I'll drown
in the early song of light
Come out
and see me swimming one last time
Row the boat fast past the shore
til the rudder starts to bite
I'm adrift and spinning downward
Please don't follow
Wide awake, terrified
the sound of the morning
might start to arrive
I sing this shaky lullaby
Humor me and don't ask questions
I can't afford to think at all
Every push is another stumble
Humor me and don't ask questions
I'm too afraid I'll pull you down
I'm too afraid you'll be undone
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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Hyperventilate
03:56
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Hey kid, kneel and submit
It's the cost for the time that you bought
It's taut like a rope pulled across
It's a rock upon my heart
The weight don't give a damn
I'm drowning where I stand
Breathe in, try to fill the demand
of the cloud too tightly bound
With the demon of now
With all the lines giving out
With the pressure pushing deeper down
I can't grab enough
or claw my way up above
to where there's open air
Dig down, I'm swimming in dirt
Dig down, I need a hand up for sure
Please don't quit
You put it off, you dressed it up
You tried to forget whatever it was
Hey kid, pop quiz:
How could you have thought that you'd be enough?
With all the things that you've done
With the creep you can never outrun
With the pressure pushing deeper down
I can't grab enough
or claw my way up above
to where there's open air
Dig down, I'm swimming in dirt
Dig down, I need a hand up for sure
Please don't quit
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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The New Decay
05:00
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Everything is breaking
The demon has untied the knot
Everything is waning
Little bits of me are flaking off
A dull listless
lifetime of feigning
what I know
Dance the dance of the dissimulation
Take a step up and then astray
Then take a look at the barest of tracings
of the shape of the new decay
This is Revelation
Weight the center never holds
Something reawakened
Something loosed upon the world
and something's shaken
down the world
of what I know
Dance the dance of the dissimulation
Take a step up and then astray
Then take a look at the barest of tracings
of the shape of the new decay
Something's shaken
down the world
of what I know
Give up on all the people who love you
whose stubborn faith in you won't give way
Smash down all of the supportive assembly
Betray it all just to make headway
Better still, just give in and surrender
to the shape of the new decay
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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St. Cecilia
04:36
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I don't know what motivates me
Sets the stone around my will
It's enough to feel the tug of frustration
slowly sloping downhill
Cast off, released
Left to float with the debris
I drift as it spreads
I know there's a way
to see myself as somehow free
but I can't look ahead
I wish you would
show me something
Some sign, some way to know that I'm right
I wish you would
save me from trying
This time for me to ever decide
I don't know what you expected
Maybe I never did you well
But I bought into that dream
The damage we both did in turn
was less than it would seem
I wish you would
show me something
Some sign, some way to know that I'm right
I wish you would
save me from trying
This time for me to ever decide
You know we've never been honest
You were yourself and I stood in the way
But if I come to you artless
is there some dream you might come to contain
that I can repay?
I wish you would
I wish you would
I wish you would
save me from ever
wasting my soul on evidence
Chasing the fear of hearing goodbye
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When Do We Get Smaller?
03:54
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And so it's time to abandon this place
Sooner than I think I can
But something keeps repeating all the things that they'll take
And this shell just isn't what I am
All the notions of faith are gone
All the pressure to carry on
I don't get what the counselors may
Grabbing more of nothing I've got
Less than anything I've done
This memory's only getting paler and gray
and turning into something it's not
and so I think I'll run
All the well-wishing push and shove
The weight drifts off and the tarmac unshackles
When do we get smaller?
Will my troubles still follow?
If we're in the air, won't one or the other pass on?
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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Fitzcarraldo
03:45
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He had come, expatriated
Businessman or film director
Time won't tell the differences
It's not just the steamboat between them
One the dream of art and address
The other of the dream of the first
Up against the thick vine and hiss
The weight something more than a rusted hull
pulled up the mountain to Caruso
And so
the will of man is enough but it won't be
The dark is always the hero of its story
The rope is not strong enough to lift it up
The apparatus strains against the overdraw
Constructed not for what it is but what it's not
The scene is a lie with an underscore
to make the most of a failure
Untethered and dragged across the jungle floor
Unmoored and set loose into the river's roar
I'm lost
Fireworks in the Plaza d'Armas
Smell and noise rising up from the Ataya
I'm lost
The city lets in the shadows to smother me
The dark is always the hero of its story
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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Mareación
11:09
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I. Up the Chain Hill
We spend our days
awakened to this world
to the drag of the red room floor
Weighed down
We arrive astray
with all our needs in tow
awash in fear and hope
Run aground
The drink is offered
like earth and spark
The cup is lifted
The chain locks to the cart
He blows the smoke
He sings his song
The jungle outside
They're ready to come in
The world is shifting
The room moves on
The thread is sewn up between us
They're ready to come in
They're ready to come in
II. The Operating Room
Prone but floating
the doctors are in
The pain is near but
the surgery begins
(It's not dark it's just not closer)
The dark is just the distance between the stars
(It's not dark it's the fear that shows her)
The dark is just the distance between ourselves
The cuts are made and the
incisions are deep
But something safeguards
between it and me
(She's the sphere and the sphere is not)
A smile upon the face she pretends to wear
(Like angels from a distant god)
meant just to cheer me and not for her
III. The Waiting Room
The mist light
or maybe it's just smoke
the dust alight
in the dry dusk air
The pillowed floor
the fabric rough but cool
I stare up at the ceiling for
some kind of sense of if or where
A lotus chair sits in front of me
throne for a sage but it's empty and
nothing here can ever hurt me
nothing here can ever hurt me
Whisper song of amenity
(we give you what you need)
it slinks around and envelops me
(when you need it not before)
Nothing here can ever hurt me but
(nothing here will ever hurt you but)
there's still work left to be done
IV. Out the Down Side
The song is loud and now we're headed down
with nothing but the things we will be without
That world is this world and this one is somehow mine
if I just knew some way to let myself live a life
The unseen scalpel
The malignant rationale
The maestro is singing
Love is just being
The maestro is singing
Love is a being
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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Here and Now I Was
04:29
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All the time I can’t put by
or retroactively repair it
Since my shade and I first became entwined
and our rapport became apparent
So while he could still be shrinking down
he’s still too dark to remember
or recall what that felt like
Here and now I was
enough to know
The shade behind me still shouts “no”
and I was just one day more
Dragged along, asleep upon
how much my life has been abandoned
So if you tell me I’ve been set free
who am I to judge?
But I still can’t see how escaping
even does anything to make me feel I’m gone
Here and now I was
standing up
Leaning back against the past
I was so dangerous
Here and now
Here and now I was
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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The Answer Is Yes
03:40
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Someone's taken all the tests and rigged them
Just to hide all the answers we're given
They took the people that we could be
They took away any empathy
And left us with nothing but smug condescension
This cynicism it crows and shouts
that it's the voice we should care about
So much safer to be deterred
So much harder to ever learn
I'm starting to feel like the answer is yes
The answer is yes
A beautiful necklace of jaded precision
to cover the neck you won't risk on existing
Fear the things you can never know
Wear the worry til the pockets show
Set the timer and never go
Here in a world completely built on no
I'm starting to feel like the answer is yes
The answer is yes
Dressed up in your best
excuses for the rest of
everything you'd guess would
be the thing to do next
Burn the nest inside your
breast and take this last
objective look around to
breathe in and see what it's worth
As if it ever really mattered though
That voice is only ever just for show
It's never made a fucking thing in this world
The answer is yes
The answer is yes
The answer is yes
(©2020 UbikMusik, BMI)
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